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_____________________________________________________________________________________________ City of Arden Hills City Council Meeting for March 20, 2017 P:\Planning\Planning Cases\2017\PC 17-006 - Higher Education Study\CC Packet_03202017_17-006\Memo.docx Page 4 of 11 physical therapy, occupational therapy, physician’s assistant and nurse practitioner programs and hopes to eventually have a medical college. Northwestern does not currently have facilities for these new programs and there is not enough room to accommodate all of the new programs on their campus. CURRENT STUDENT POPULATION BETHEL UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN POST SECONDARY 21 1,290 TRADITIONAL UNDERGRADUATE 2,548 1,556 ADULT UNDERGRADUATE 172 GRADUATE 1,153 213 SEMINARY 545 N/A TOTAL 4,267 3,231 Due to the desire of both universities to grow their programs and enrollment, and the cost savings from converting existing building into higher education facilities, Arden Hills should continue to expect requests from both Bethel and Northwestern to expand their facilities into the existing business and industrial zones. Commercial and Industrial Zones For the purposes of this study, all applicable land uses within the City were assigned a North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code. The NAICS is used by businesses and governments throughout North America, and is also used for industry information in the United States Census. It is being used for this study so that the land uses within districts correlate and can be evaluated in the same manner as employment and income by industry. The following discussion will center on the two tables below. The first table is an evaluation of the Purpose Statements for each individual district. The statements were grouped by topic to show the intended purpose or areas of emphasis of each zoning district. The complete list of each zoning district’s purpose statements are provided in Attachment D. The second table shows which industries (based on NAICS code) are currently allowed in each zoning district. The table breaks down whether the uses are permitted, accessory, conditional, conditional accessory or allowed by Planned Unit Development. The complete list of uses allowed in each zoning district is provided in Attachment E. To evaluate these tables, we have grouped two or three zoning districts together based on overall similarity. The discussion will focus on where the uses and purpose statements are similar between the districts, as well as where they are different. The Arden Hills Zoning Map is provided as Attachment F.